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What do the gestalt principles of visual perception refer to?
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Ways in which we organise the elements in our visual field by grouping them into a perception of a whole, complete form in the simplest way.
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What is figure ground, give an example?
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Perceptually separating the figure from then ground - using an existing or inferred contour |
When does camouflage occur?
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When the figure and the ground are not easily separated and it restricts our mental ability to attach contours to the figures to separate them from their ground.
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What is closure? Give an example?
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Objects grouped together are seen as a whole Perceptual tendency ignore gaps and complete contour lines in the visual stimulus and perceive objects as complete |
What is similarity?
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The tendency to perceive stimuli or parts of a visual stimuli that have similar features as belonging in a group or whole |
Where is similarity applied?
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In designs such as uniforms
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What is proximity? Give an example?
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The tendency to perceive parts of a visual stimulus that are positioned close together as belonging together in a group. - These 9 squares are placed without proximity, and seen as separate squares - When they are put together, unity occurs and they are seen as a group |